The Roman Missal: Proper of Saints, March and April (English) 2

1[March 2. St Chad, Bishop and Confessor.—Double.]

2[Mass.—Sacerdotes tui, for a Bishop and Confessor, page xxix, except what follows:]

3Prayer. Omnipotens. O Almighty, everlasting God, who givest us joy this day by the festival of blessed Chad, thy confessor and bishop, we suppliantly beseech thy clemency, that by his pious suffrages, whose festival we venerate with devout celebration, we may obtain the remedies of life eternal. Through our Lord, &c.

4Secret. Favourably regard our supplications, we beseech thee, O Lord; and by the intercession of blessed Chad, thy confessor and bishop, grant us to be free from all sin in the ministry of thy heavenly mysteries, that purified by thy grace, we may be made clean by the same mysteries which we serve. Through our Lord, &c.

5Postcom. Præsta quæsumus. Grant, we beseech thee, O Lord our God, that being purified by the divine mysteries, through the intercession of blessed Chad, thy confessor and bishop, we may go forward to the plenitude of the heavenly sacrament, the holy rites of which we have celebrated. Through our Lord, &c.